Hi Everyone, I am a new member here. I am owned by an 8 month old English Springer Spaniel puppy who was diagnosed at 8 weeks old. His name is Hero.
I have been fighting this puppy and his eating habits for too long about 4 months. He used to eat like a cow at every meal and about 4 months ago he quit eating for about 2 weeks staright. Now Some days he eats with a vengence other days he won't eat at all, and I mean I have tried everything short of force feeding him. I can not get him to consistently eat for a few days in a row to be able to do a curve. I have had all blood work done and nothing is wrong there. I have also had his stools checked as he seems to be on and off metronidazole he is getting blood in his poop at times about twice in 3 weeks now for a few days each time. We had a bout of giardia last winter and nothing since, but it has been checked 3 times and treated anyway twice. No other dogs here are having stool issues either.
Now for the pondering questions.... I am afraid Hero is in need of a dose adjustment. His numbers aren't coming and staying in the 100's anymore. I am wondering if I am dealing with rebound, and could have been for a while how do I know and what do I do? I dismissed the rebound issue before after talking to my vet, since Hero is never gone too low on me. Hero is always too high. I increased him to 8 units the other day, but when I had to use both N and R I backed off the 8 units and went back to his usual 7. His insulin doesn't last for twelve hours and I find myself feeding him and injecting around supper time when he really shouldn't be due until about 9pm before he spikes up again. As his insulin wears off he gets too high. Plus I use the competition of the other dogs eating at dinner time to make him interested in food period. It is almost impossible to get him to eat alone at a time other than the other dogs eat and I can't feed all of the others so late at night 9pm.
I don't know whether to increase his insulin (which I suspect he needs) or decrease it hoping for signs of rebound. Is there someone who is an expert on here? We aren't getting numbers in the 100's anymore, and the lowest I have seen in a while is 260.. I know you will ask for his curve but there just isn't one to offer on a day where he ate both meals and I didn't need to give any R that day. We use R intermittantly because of the high numbers.
Lisa & Hero
I have been fighting this puppy and his eating habits for too long about 4 months. He used to eat like a cow at every meal and about 4 months ago he quit eating for about 2 weeks staright. Now Some days he eats with a vengence other days he won't eat at all, and I mean I have tried everything short of force feeding him. I can not get him to consistently eat for a few days in a row to be able to do a curve. I have had all blood work done and nothing is wrong there. I have also had his stools checked as he seems to be on and off metronidazole he is getting blood in his poop at times about twice in 3 weeks now for a few days each time. We had a bout of giardia last winter and nothing since, but it has been checked 3 times and treated anyway twice. No other dogs here are having stool issues either.
Now for the pondering questions.... I am afraid Hero is in need of a dose adjustment. His numbers aren't coming and staying in the 100's anymore. I am wondering if I am dealing with rebound, and could have been for a while how do I know and what do I do? I dismissed the rebound issue before after talking to my vet, since Hero is never gone too low on me. Hero is always too high. I increased him to 8 units the other day, but when I had to use both N and R I backed off the 8 units and went back to his usual 7. His insulin doesn't last for twelve hours and I find myself feeding him and injecting around supper time when he really shouldn't be due until about 9pm before he spikes up again. As his insulin wears off he gets too high. Plus I use the competition of the other dogs eating at dinner time to make him interested in food period. It is almost impossible to get him to eat alone at a time other than the other dogs eat and I can't feed all of the others so late at night 9pm.
I don't know whether to increase his insulin (which I suspect he needs) or decrease it hoping for signs of rebound. Is there someone who is an expert on here? We aren't getting numbers in the 100's anymore, and the lowest I have seen in a while is 260.. I know you will ask for his curve but there just isn't one to offer on a day where he ate both meals and I didn't need to give any R that day. We use R intermittantly because of the high numbers.
Lisa & Hero
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